Foundation Future Trends Forum

Future Trends Forum

The Future Trends Forum is the only international, multidisciplinary think tank focused on innovation. Made up of more than 400 experts, the FTF anticipates the future by detecting trends in innovation and analyzing their impact on our society and business models. 

Every year we ask our experts to detect the innovative trends that will have the largest impact on our near future. Once the trends to be discussed are chosen, our experts lend a helping hand to define the key issues to be analyzed as part of each trend and identify the key experts from around the world. This set of experts will ultimately collaborate with us to anticipate challenges brought about by each trend. After an on-site meeting in Madrid, the conclusions drawn are discussed in a forward-looking report that presents as well an overview of the trend. The report focuses on drawing conclusions about the potential impact of the trend discussed,  in order to communicate pragmatic, down-to-earth knowledge to our target audience. These contents are published on our website and spread via ad-hoc conferences around Spain, seeking the goal of anticipating the future and encouraging innovation in society.

Trends

  • 2019
    Commercialization of Space
    Commercialization of Space

    In this trend, we analyze how the advancement of technology is enabling the commercialization of space and the development of new industrial applications in orbit as manufacturing and research or new technologies of communication and observation.

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  • 2018
    Disruptive cities
    Disruptive cities

    This trend analyses the evolution of cities in the next decade, making in smart and disruptive cities.

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  • 2017
    Longevidad
    Longevity

    In this trend, our experts analyze the main consequences of the ageing population for companies and society, as well as the opportunities it provides for innovation.

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  • 2017
    Bussines Model Disruption
    Business Model Disruption

    In last years, we are witnessing a radical acceleration of innovation and the creation of new business models thanks to technological development. This FTF trends will explore what new business models will generate the new generation of disruptive technologies such as artificial intelligence, Blockchains, robotics, etc.

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  • 2016
    Digital Health
    Digital Health

    This trend analyzes how the digital revolution has reached health. The expert of the Future Trends Forum analyzed this new revolution to develop a new map of digital health, with its barriers and benefits as well as identifying stakeholders involved (patients, health professionals, public service) in accelerating digital health.

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  • 2016
    Tecnología y Desigualdad
    Technology and inequality

    This trend analyses the potential of technology to combat inequality in society, through the improvement of services and opportunities for all of society, whether in developed or emerging economies.

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  • 2015
    Cybersecurity
    Cybersecurity

    This trend analyzes the development of cybersecurity around transparency, surveillance and privacy, as it becomes a driver for new business opportunities.

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  • 2015
    The machine revolution
    The machine revolution

    This trend has analyzed how new technological developments (the Internet, robotics, artificial intelligence, etc.) will boost employment and labor markets in the next decade.

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  • 2014
    Big Data and human performance
    Big Data and human performance

    This trend analyzes the study of human behavior and its implications for individuals, business and governments from a data-driven perspective.

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  • 2014
    The future of currencies
    The future of currencies

    This trend analyzes new innovation trends in connection with the new financial services.

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  • 2013
    The Keys for the new global balance
    The Keys for the new global balance

    This trend presents the proposals of our think thank on the new flows of capital (human, financial and intellectual) that will reshape the economic landscape for decades to come.

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  • 2013
    Superhumans
    Superhumans

    This trend examines the scientific and technological progresses that increase and enhance human capabilities.

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  • 2011
    Social Technologies
    Social Technologies

    This trend analyzes the latest technological trend that is changing our environment: the social technologies.

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  • 2010
    Internet of things
    Internet of things

    This trend analyzes a technology that enables connecting to the net any conceivable object, thus becoming smart and offering endless possibilities.

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  • 2010
    The art of innovation and entrepreneurship
    The art of innovation and entrepreneurship

    Tendencia que analiza los ingredientes necesarios para que la innovación y el espíritu emprendedor tengan lugar en nuestra sociedad.

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  • 2009
    Cloud Computing
    Cloud Computing

    This trend analyzes the cloud: a revolutionary access to technology, enabling individuals and companies to access computer services.

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  • 2009
    Social innovation
    Social innovation

    This trend identifies the strategies to follow in order to achieve a model of social and economic organization underpinned by ethical values and sustainable development.

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  • 2008
    Mobile technologies
    Mobile technologies

    This trend analyzes the newfound openness of the mobile market and how it affects the supply of devices and services. It provides some clues on how to seize upcoming opportunities in the industry.

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  • 2008
    Competing in challenging times
    Competing in challenging times

    This trend analyzes the new multipolar world order, characterized by a greater weight of emerging economies, and it delves into new rules of the game that will set the dynamics of markets where investors, companies, governments and consumers coexist.

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  • 2007
    New consumers
    New consumers

    This trend analyzes the causes and consequences of the singularity of global aging and immigration as new factors in trade and business trends.

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  • 2007
    Web 2.0
    Web 2.0

    This trend offers a general and comprehensive vision of the Web 2.0 and its impact on social networks.

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  • 2006
    Innovation: the wealth of nations
    Innovation: the wealth of nations

    This trend defines the concept of innovation, and gives a diagnosis of the current state of affairs around the world while analyzing its implications and their influence in competitiveness and productivity.

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  • 2006
    Energy: the challenge of demand
    Energy: the challenge of demand

    This trend analyzes the combination of finite resources with unstoppable demand and how a production unable to accompany the pace of consumption will produce tensions in the global economy.

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  • 2005
    China
    China

    This trend analyzes how to face the challenge of China since it decided to open up to the outside world and its global impact.

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  • 2005
    Nanotechnology
    Nanotechnology

    This trend analyzes the development of the science and nanoscale engineering and its impact on society.

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  • 2004
    3G/UMTS
    3G/UMTS

    This trend discusses the likely future awaiting the new generation of mobile phones known as 3G.

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  • 2004
    Personalized medicine
    Personalized medicine

    This trend analyzes the new medical environment that will allow the progressive application of preventive and curative treatments based on genetic information.

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  • 2003
    RFID
    RFID

    This trend analyzes the radio frequency identification technology (RFID) installed in objects to transmit data to an RFID receiver and its commercial implications.

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